Seeing a doctor in UK for the first time, yours drug will most likely be a bloody SSRI. Even if your anxiety is so severe that you can talk. Maybe the doctor will be particularly stupid and fall into the marketing that the latest atypical anti psychotic. If you do not have psychotic symptoms DO NOT TAKE AN anti psychotic. It is likely that such a drug will only make your symptoms worse.
Other determinants of resting metabolism include thyroid hormones and catecholamines, genetics, body temperature, and in women, the phase of the menstrual cycle. An increased release of thyroid hormones or catecholamines increases RMR. Conversely, a reduction in energy intake specifically decreases triiodothyronine (T3) levels and norepinephrine release, which can subsequently decrease metabolic rate.
By Mark P. Kelly, Ph.D. Unless you have been living on an island or mountaintop somewhere (or simply donât watch television), youâve undoubtedly seen numerous infomercials talking about resting metabolic rate (RMR) and how one exercise or another will increase it, causing body fat to just melt away. Because men, on average, have a greater muscle mass and a lower body-fat percentage than women, they generally have a higher basal metabolic rate. 2  Age. 3  BMR is greater in childhood than in adulthood. 4  After age 20, BMR is estimated to drop about 2 percent to 3 percent each decade.